Thanks for gdiplusx. getmonochrome() and example start me up.

May i know is it possible to return a binary stream (like from filetostr()) from xfcBitmap object so i can save the string to memo file rightaway ?

Thank you.


>>Dear Cesar
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>>How are you ?
>>I know you are very interested in using GDI :)
>>In fact, i would like to convert the color jpg to 1bit black/white file for special purpose printing. could you enlighting me ? Tks
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>See if this helps you:
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>PS: Requires GdiPlusX
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** HOWTO: Get a Monochromatic 1 bit per pixel image
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>DO LOCFILE("System.App")
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>WITH _SCREEN.System.Drawing
>   * Create a Bitmap object based on a BMP file.
>   LOCAL loOriginalBmp AS xfcBitmap
>   loOriginalBmp = .Bitmap.New(GETPICT())
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>   LOCAL loMonoChrBmp as xfcBitmap
>   loMonoChrBmp = loOriginalBmp.GetMonochrome()
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>   * Dispose the original Bitmap because we don't need it any more
>   loOriginalBmp = NULL
>	
>   * Save the created Monochromatic Bmp
>   loMonochrBmp.Save("c:\Monochromatic.bmp", .Imaging.ImageFormat.Bmp)
>ENDWITH
>
>RETURN